die in harness
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Newsgathering is a tough job and Karl Bickel was determined not to die in harness.
From Time Magazine Archive
As independent as he is softspoken, Bruce Rogers prefers to die in harness rather than cash in on purely commercial work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The press never played up Claude Swanson's illness because the press knew he would die in harness.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were all in a manner waifs, and they had nothing to hope for but that they might die in harness.
From Barnaby A Novel by Ramsay, R.
The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness.
From Eugenics and Other Evils by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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